you anything.  What matters is total tax collections, not the tax rate.  The deficit went up under Bush because he fought two wars and increased entitlements whilst not raising taxes to pay for them.

That's easy to fix.  Let the Bush tax cuts expire 100%, end the wars and increase medicare taxes by 2%.

That would not be the draconian tax increase that everybody wants, nor would it change social security.

Don't waste your vote, vote Green or Independent in the next election.

by mcamelyne on 09/04/2010 09:15:47 PM EST

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Except that no one is proposing "Draconian" tax increases that you claim "everybody wants". We don't need to go back to the days of 70-90% but we need to get it back to 50% or more... You know, like back in the days when we could balance the budget.

I mean god DAMN look at that GDP/Debt stat. That's ROUGH.

We were fucking gravy train until Reagan came and fucked it all up.

"Terrorism is the war for the poor and powerless. War is the terrorism for the rich and powerful."

by JamesStevensDigArt on 09/04/2010 10:04:24 PM EST

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"We were fucking gravy train until Reagan came and fucked it all up."

....and Amen.

by sisco66 on 09/05/2010 05:01:53 PM EST

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